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A Slow Computer and A Battle of the Sexes

My
wife and I share our home office, so frequently we find ourselves in
there working (or playing) at the same time. While it’s nice to spend
time with her, it is not nice when I hear her bragging and teasing me
that her Mac is so much faster than my PC. I had noticed a gradual
slow-down since I bought it, and had to agree it had gone from being the
hare to the tortoise. This got me to wondering, other than getting a
new computer, how could I get it back up to speed? And more importantly,
shut my wife up?

So,
I hit the Internet in search of a solution. I found many. Here are the
most common that I was able to assemble, then implement:

1. Reboot: I turned my PC off, the back on again.

2. Scan for malware: I ran Norton 360. All clear, no problems detected.

3. Run Windows Update: Did it. It was already up to date.

4. Clear your web page history: This was a good suggestion because mine was huge.

5. Free up hard drive space: This was easy. All I did was delete two years worth of photos after burning them to a DVD.

6. Update your drivers: My video drive was indeed out of date, so I installed the latest version.

7: Add more memory: I discovered that I should have at least 1 GB of RAM. I already had 2, so this wasn’t necessary.

8. Make sure computer isn’t overheating: I could hear the little fan running but I blew out all the dust off, inside and out.

9. Erase computer and reinstall everything: Yeah, right, like I was going to do this.

After
doing all this I did notice a small increase in speed, but not that
much. My wife’s Mac was still faster. After politely watching her smirk
at me, I decided to redouble my efforts. That led me to discovering
Avanquest’s “Fix-it-Disk Optimizer.”
After reading some reviews about it, I decided to give it a try, seeing
how they had a free trial offer. After seeing how well it worked and
how easy it was to use, I bought the fullversion, using a coupon I found that saved me a bundle.

Here’s what “Fix-it-Disk Optimizer” did:

Defragmented my hard drive

Optimized my hard drive

Removed junk files from my system

Removed obsolete files from my system obsolete files from my system

Removed duplicate files from my system

Made my PC run fast as hell

Now
her Mac does some things faster but my PC does other things faster, so
all in all, I’d say it’s a tie. I actually think my computer runs better
now than when I first got it. So, if you’re computer is being sluggish,
get Fix-it-Disk Optimizer. It certainly worked for me. Best of all, it
keeps my wife from bragging about how fast her stupid Mac is.

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